A Quote by David Weinberger

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent. — © David Weinberger
The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

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It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.
The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.
In this insane, chaotic world, you can only be insane and chaotic.
I loved playing Sweetie in 'Mubarakan.' It was chaotic and funny; it was sort of a magnum unfold in a chaotic way.
The bottom line is music, for me, is an exhaust port for life, and if I have a chaotic year, then I'm gonna write a chaotic record, and that's what happened with 'Ziltoid,' with 'Z2.'
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.
We live in a... chaotic world.
Human beings make use of torture when they get chaotic and confused. And Americans certainly got chaotic, vengeful and confused after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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